Counselling with Rob Brown
Counsellor Central London and Kent

Psychosynthesis Counselling

What is counselling?
Counselling helps you to explore and deal with issues which are preventing you from leading your life fully.

Counselling helps you to gain awareness and insight around repeated patterns in your life that are causing conflict within you or with others. If you are feeling that life is a struggle or that you are not reaching your full potential, then counselling can help you address these issues.

Psychosynthesis counselling
Psychosynthesis counselling is a holistic approach that seeks to integrate all parts of the personality.

Psychosynthesis offers a way of exploring those aspects of ourselves that are in conflict with each other. It is about a ‘coming together’, a ‘making whole’ and looks at the internal blocks that hold us back from living life fully.

Psychosynthesis counselling works by exploring the past, present and future:

We explore what brings you to counselling.

We look together at how your past might be impacting on the present.

We work with how you would like your life to be, right now.

We explore how you might start to access a sense of purpose and create more meaning in your life in the future.

My approach
As a psychosynthesis counsellor my approach involves sensitively exploring issues through dialogue and, where appropriate, working creatively with guided visualisations, drawing, chair work, imagery and dreams. I work in the way that best suits each individual and so my focus is less about techniques and more about the importance of the therapeutic relationship.

My aim is to enable people to gain an expanded awareness of their issues. With awareness comes choice and, with choice, the possibility of doing things differently.

Gay affirmative counselling
"The gay affirmative therapist affirms a lesbian, gay or bisexual identity as an equally positive human experience and expression to heterosexual identity." *

Psychosynthesis is an affirmative approach and honours each person on his or her journey towards living life more authentically. It believes in valuing the inner wisdom of the individual and in prizing the uniqueness and fullness of each person.

As a psychosynthesis counsellor I work with all clients, whatever their sexual orientation and gender, from a place of respect, non-judgement and acceptance.

* Davies, D & Neal, C editors (1999), Pink Therapy: a guide for counsellors and therapists working with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients. Buckingham: Open University Press